15 days and 27 years, after having murdered Thomas Sankara, Blaise Compaoré is in his turn forced to resign or rather booted out of office. On 15 Octobre 1987 that Thomas Sankara was murdered by men of Compaoré. Now, Compaoré himself fell on 30 October 2014. As it so well said, anyone who uses the sword, will die by the sword. Now, our hope is that the people’s revolution will not be hijacked by the army who are Compaoré’s men and France’s men. Bye Bye Compaoré.

[…] 28th until March 7th. The festival’s glamour was not at its usual, since the overthrowing of Blaise Compaoré, but it still took place in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and brought in some great African films […]